Design considerations for exterior envelopes of buildings in cold climate regions beyond 2000

For some, the term ‘cold climate’ is used to describe geographic regions of the Earth where snow remains on the ground for at least some portion of the year. For others, the term refers to the ‘north’, which has been described as the area located north of the southern limit of scattered discontinuous permafrost (Fig. 4.1) (Larsson, 1985).